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In the short-term, fight fans shouldn’t hold out hope of seeing Georges St-Pierre in Toronto at UFC 206 in December. In the long-term, however, St-Pierre’s UFC return looks more promising than it did last week. Days after St-Pierre said his lawyers believed he was free of any contract binding him to UFC, St-Pierre and UFC […]

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The Toronto Sun is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the woman who tossed a beer can at Baltimore Orioles outfield Hyun Soo Kim. The Sun — like millions in Canada — said on Wednesday that it was appalled over the incident, which mildly dampened what should be a day of […]

TORONTO — Canadian welterweight Rory MacDonald is celebrating a new baby, new employer and a new lease on life. The 27-year-old fighter is the latest new face of the Bellator promotion, leaving the UFC after a 13-fight career that brought him to the cusp of the 170-pound championship. “I feel a lot of motivation,” MacDonald said […]

LAS VEGAS — Conor McGregor will fight for Eddie Alvarez’s lightweight title in the UFC’s debut in New York. The mixed martial arts promotion announced the main event Monday night for UFC 205 on Nov. 12 at Madison Square Garden in the UFC’s first show in the state. McGregor (20-3) is a wildly popular Irish […]

TORONTO — Ron MacLean is officially back as host of “Hockey Night in Canada,” returning to the chair he occupied for nearly 30 years before being ousted in favour of music journalist and CBC talk show star George Stroumboulopoulos. MacLean will host the early game on Saturday night next season while David Amber will take […]

Almost 20 years after Ultimate Fighting Championship was chased out of New York on a middle-of-the-night flight to Dothan, Alabama, the state is welcoming mixed martial arts back. In a decision two decades in the making, the New York Assembly voted Tuesday in favour of legalizing MMA after years of leaving a ban intact. A Democrat-controlled chamber approved MMA […]

For Conor McGregor, the opportunity to hold two Ultimate Fighting Championship titles at the same time is lost — for now, at least. His new challenge, instead: moving up two weight classes to face Nate Diaz in the new main event of UFC 196. A whirlwind 24 hours culminated with the official announcement late Tuesday that McGregor […]

Ultimate Fighting Championship superstar Ronda Rousey can add another item to her growing resume: Saturday Night Live host. NBC announced Tuesday that the 28-year-old California native would host the Jan. 23 episode, alongside musical guest Selena Gomez. She will become just the 25th athlete — and first mixed martial artist — to host the iconic variety […]

LAS VEGAS — Only the fifth-round bell could stop Robbie Lawler and Carlos Condit from punishing each other. When it finally rang, the champion and challenger stood side-by-side with their arms leaned up on the cage, wearing exhaustion and respect on their bruised, bloodied faces. Although Lawler kept his title by a narrow margin, he can’t […]

Those explosions echoing through Las Vegas to welcome in 2016? Not just fireworks. Robbie Lawler and Carlos Condit will also be bringing in the new year with a bang. Two of the hardest hitting, most violent fighters in the world square off in the main event of UFC 195 on Saturday at MGM Grand Garden […]

Twelve months of waiting. One false start. Two title belts. An estimated one million buys on pay-per-view and 16,000 or so thousand fans (including around 4,000 who flew from Ireland) in Las Vegas for Ultimate Fighting Championship’s most-anticipated title bout of 2015. Want some more numbers? Here’s a by-the-numbers look into UFC 194, which takes place Saturday […]

It was almost as if Holly Holm wasn’t even part of the equation. Such has been the case for previous contenders — or, in an instance or two, pretenders — to the Ultimate Fighting Championship throne of Ronda Rousey. In advance of Saturday’s UFC 193 at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia, celebrities from across the […]

Seamus John Neary says he was storing marijuana for a friend and decided to sell some of it, but he had no agreement in place to traffic marijuana. Neary, 25, testified in his own defence Thursday in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench, where he’s on trial for trafficking marijuana in an amount over three kilograms. […]

The first time Chandler Stephenson’s parents went to register him for hockey, he was too young to play. “You had to be five (to play),” Stephenson recalls. “I was four, so I had to play a year of ringette before I could play hockey.” Ever since, he dreamt of playing in the NHL. And now, that […]

The first time Chandler Stephenson’s parents went to register him for hockey, he was too young to play. “You had to be five (to play),” Stephenson recalls. “I was four, so I had to play a year of ringette before I could play hockey.”

A 33rd football season looks to be in the offing for University of Saskatchewan Huskies football coach Brian Towriss. Towriss, whose Huskies endured their worst win-loss record since 2000, said Monday there’s no question he’s back for another campaign.

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